1001 Inspirational Quotes

1001 Inspirational Quotes collected by Barbara Hofmeister

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Everyone thinks of changing the world,

But no one thinks of changing himself.- Count Leo Tolstoy

Barbara Hofmeister

Of German origin, now living in Southern Spain, Barbara truly lives the philosophy she shares with her clients on a daily basis. She knows from her own experience that even small obstacles can stop us from going after our dreams. Through her program To be or not to be the Choice is YOURS! http://www.trainingvisions.com she empowers her clients to dare and go past those obstacles, fears, and self doubts in order to realize that they too have the right to live their dreams and that it is never too late to make that choice. My confidence and self esteem used to be very low. Other people would usually notice before me when I had mastered something new. Quite often they even had to cajole me into accepting that I had actually done it. Crazy, but true This low confidence in my own abilities was the reason I started to live my dream so late in life even though I have been involved in personal development since 1978. Dont let this happen to you. Start today! You can and with my help you will make your dreams come true. Barbara Hofmeister If you want to move forward and live your dream life sign up for Barbaras To Be Membership or her free weekly Insights short practical lessons to a greater YOU!



You are not what you think you are, but what your THINK, you are M.V.Hansen

"Fears are educated into us and can, if we wish, be educated out." Karl Menninger, Psychiatrist

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you dont have any problems, you dont get any seeds.- Norman Vincent Peale

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. - Winston Churchill

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.- Charles F. Kettering

"The pain lies in the difference of what we think should happen and what actually happens - Vernon Howard

It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.- Earl Nightingale

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. George E. Woodberry

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." Dr. Wayne Dayer

"It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them the character, the heart, the generous qualities, progressive ideas." Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Writer

"Everything is always impossible before it works. Thats what entrepreneurs are all about doing what people have told them is impossible." R. Hunt Greene, Venture Capitalist

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." - Eddie Rickenbacker



"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can." - Sydney Smith

"In times of change, the learners will inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer

"All big things in this world are done by people who are nave and have an idea that is obviously impossible." - Dr. Wayne DyerFrank Richards

"Good humor is tonic for the mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment." - Grenville Kleiser

"In the best institutions, promises are kept, no matter what the cost in agony and overtime." David Ogilvy, Founder Ogilvy & Mather

An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity. - Anonymous

"It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy." Mother Theresa

"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence in seeing how you act. If youre in control, theyre in control." - Tom Landr, Football Coach

"I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have." Thomas Jefferson, US President

"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit." -Bern Williams

"Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted." Albert Einstein, Scientist

"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you wont, you most assuredly wont. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad." - Denis Waitley

The strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul." Rona Barrett



"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way . . . You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."- Aristotle, Philosopher

"Character the willingness to accept responsibility for ones own life is the source from which self-respect springs." Joan Didion, Journalist

"It is our choices . . . that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." J. K. Rowling, Childrens Book Author

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.- Dr. David Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big

"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen." Robert Jarvik

All things are difficult before they are easy.- John Norley

Beautiful thoughts make beautiful lives, for every word and deed lies in the thought that prompted it, as the flowers lie in the seed. - A. E. Godfrey

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." Buddha

"If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." - Rosalyn Carter

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step. - Zen saying

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton

"Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with." Robert Leighton



"Every artist was first an amateur." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet

The genius of money is not knowing everything, but rather, surrounding yourself with those who do.- Glen Purdy

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things. Peter Drucker

"You wander from room to room. Hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your neck!" - Jalal-Uddin Rumi

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." - Agnes Repplier

"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves." - Galileo Galilei

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." Mark Twain, Author

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. - Winston Churchill

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Brian Tracy

"If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul." Harold Kushner Rabbi

Deciding to commit yourself to long-term results rather than short- term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime. - Anthony Robbins

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." - Denis Waitley

There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. Wayne Dyer, Author "The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started." -Dawson Trotman



"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." Abraham Lincoln 16th US President

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." - Richard Bach

"There are two types of speakers, those that are nervous and those that are liars. - Mark Twain

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress." - Unknown

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared with what lies within us." Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Supreme Court Chief Justice

"Self-control is a critical leadership skill. Leaders generally are able to plan and work at a task over a longer time span than those they lead." - Gerald Faust

"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be." - David Viscott

"Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves." - Unknown

"Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold." Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you." - James T. Farrell

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T. S. Eliot, Poet

"To win, you have to risk loss." Jean Claude Killy

"Moral courage simply means you do what you think is right without bothering too much about the effect on yourself." William Slim, British Field Marshal

"Expertise is generic. Point of view is what audiences pay for. -Mark Sanborn, Past President, National Speakers Association

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. William James, 1842-1910, author



YOU don't have to get it right, YOU just have to get it going. Michael Bloomberg

"Every human has four endowments--self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom . . . The power to choose, to respond, to change." - Stephen R. Covey

In all affairs it's a healthy thing to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. Bertrand Russell (18721970)

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, British Statesman and Diplomat The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity." - Joseph Sugarman "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." Aristotle, Philosopher

"What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter." - Peter Drucker

"People living deeply have no fear of death." Anais Nin

"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime." - Dale Carnegie

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important." - Arthur Bloch

We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is no other way. Earl G. Graves

"To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents 1% of your work that results from the 99% that is called failure." Henry Ford

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." Oscar Wilde Writer



"We make a "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill

Always will I strive to be greater than I am. I must surpass myself. In each successive act, test, encounter, thought, I will be greater than in the one previous. I am what I am now; but in an hour I must be more than I am now. In everything must I exert more power to surpass myself." - unknown "To win, you have to risk loss." Jean Claude Killy

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things. Peter Drucker

"Self-control is a critical leadership skill. Leaders generally are able to plan and work at a task over a longer time span than those they lead." - Gerald Faust

We are what we repeatedly do." Aristotle

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will." Jawaharlal Nehru

There is no point doing well what you shouldn't be doing at all. Make the hard decisions about what you want and need to do. Then do them, and do them right. Patricia Fripp

"Half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough." Josh Billings

"Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully." Frances Moore Lappe

"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life." - Greg Anderson

"When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate." Ann Landers

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you." - James T. Farrell



When a door closes, another one opens. But we look at the closed door with regret for so long, that we dont see the one that has opened for us. Unknown

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets. Nido Qubein, author, philanthropist

"The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises - it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook -- it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security." - John F. Kennedy "Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death." - James F. Byrnes Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars." Les Brown

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." Johann von Goethe

"From now on I vow I will try to act the part of a person TEN TIMES BIGGER than I now am, for by doing, I construct greater powers in my own brain which will actually build me into such a leader. I refuse to longer be confined by the shadowy walls which heretofore have cramped me into a narrow sphere. From this day forth the word "limit" is banished from my mind." - unknown

"A leader must know, must know that he knows and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows. Clarence B. Randall

Our only limitations are those which we set up in our minds or permit others to establish for us." Elizabeth Arden

"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say." - Martin Luther, Priest, Scholar, Reformer

"We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not fear the voices of dissent." J. William Fulbright, educator, legislator



Ability is what youre capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz

"The beginning is the most important part of the work." Plato, Philosopher

Wealth is the product of a mans capacity to think. Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, author, philosopher

"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater one." William Hazlitt, Essayist

Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change Dr. Wayne Dyer

"There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." - John F. Kennedy

Thoughts and ideas are the source of all wealth, success, material gain, all great discoveries, inventions and achievements." - Mark Victor Hansen

"Begin With The End in Mind" - Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

"I decided to be the best and the smartest." Oprah Winfrey, entrepreneur, talk-show host

"Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." Marie Curie, Physicist

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. You don't have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether you read, develop new skills, and take new classes." Jim Rohn

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." - Martha Washington

"To avoid criticism... Do nothing... Say nothing... Be nothing!" - Elbert Hubbard



The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the fainthearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal. Victor Hugo

"Youll never get the best from employees by trying to build a fire under them youve got to build a fire within them." Bob Nelson

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary." Thomas Edison

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? Its quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isnt at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember thats where you will find success." Thomas J. Watson

"The noblest search is the search for excellence." -- Lyndon B. Johnson

"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." -- Pat Riley

"Do what you love to do and commit yourself to doing it in an excellent fashion." -- Brian Tracy

"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments." -- Napoleon Hill

"When you engage in systematic, purposeful action, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself." - Brian Tracy

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln

"Everyone whos ever taken a shower has an idea. Its the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference." Nolan Buhnell

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. - Abraham Lincoln

Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it."



You haven't failed until you quit trying. - Unknown

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. - Thomas A. Edison

"Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system." Norman Cousin

Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about. Tom Chappel

Dreams are extremely important. You cant do it unless you imagine it." George Lucas

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." - Unknown

"Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared." David Ben-Gurion

"To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, happy and successful thoughts 24 hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all." Sidney Madwed

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you. William Knudsen Jr.

"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self." - Whitney Young, Civil rights leader (1921-1971)

Man kann auf seinen Standpunkt stehen, aber man sollte nicht darauf sitzen." (Erich Kstner, dt. Schriftsteller (sorry, no translation possible)

Success is the proper utilization of failure. - Unknown



"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision." - Muhammad Ali, American Boxer

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction." Kenichi Ohmae

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." Eleanor Roosevelt

"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home." John Stuart Mill

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristole

Everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing himself." Leo Tolstoy

True commitment...is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous, and it is rare." G.K. Chesterton

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But its only kept a secret from the person who fails. Robert Half

Don't strive for perfection in items or actions that don't matter. People are usually paid to get results, not to be perfect. Patricia Fripp

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." William Ellery Channing

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." - Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993, Speaker and Author

"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with a man is what he makes himself." Alexander Graham Bell

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" - Frank Scully

"The biggest mistake people make in life is not making a living at doing what they most enjoy." - Malcolm S. Forbes

"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself and yearns for the impossible." - Eric Hoffer, Philosopher



You're writing the story of your life one moment at a time." - Doc Childre and Howard Martin

"You'll see it, when you believe it" - Dr. Wayne Dyer

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be.- James Allen

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. Abraham Lincoln

"Self trust is the first secret of success." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough." - Oprah Winfrey

Amateur performers operate from delusion, pros operate from objective reality. The great ones habits, actions, and behaviors are totally congruent with the size and scope of their ultimate vision. Thats why we call them champions. Steve Siebold

"It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves." Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Writer

"Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day, for it is life, the very life of life." - Sanskrit

As I see it, every day you can do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself. Adele Davis

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills that you should avoid. - Thomas Jefferson Lipton

"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that." - Earl Nightingale

Change your direction and you will change your destiny Mark Victor Hansen

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." Frank Tibolt



"The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre." - Peter Drucker

"I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success, but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life." Madeleine Albright US Secretary of State

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. - Laurence J. Peter US educator & writer (1919 - 1988)

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. You don't have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether you read, develop new skills, and take new classes." - Jim Rohn

A teacher who is attempting to teach, without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on a cold iron.- Horace Mann

Remember, no more effort is required in order to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty. - Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

"The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them." - P. D. Ouspensky

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." Unkown

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is." - Albert Einstein

Real courage is moving forward when the outcome is uncertain. - Michael Angier

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." - Auguste Rodin, Sculptor

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances." - Martha Washington



"There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment and you start to decline." - Andy Grove, Intel Chairman

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing. - Robert Kiyosaki

"Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger." Arnold Palmer, Golfer

"Ones objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over . . . Your problem wont improve with age." Warren Buffett, Investor

"Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs." Mario Andretti, Race Car Driver


"Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles." Jawaharal Nehru

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Alva Edison

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. - Benjamin Franklin

"You are accountable for what you do, and no one else is accountable." Edith Martin

"Luck is not chance; its toil. Fortunes expensive smile is earned." Emily Dickinson, Poet

"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius." An Wang, Wang Laboratories Founder

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell



Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them. - Robert Kiyosaki

Good judgment is gained through experience. Experience is gained through poor judgment. Unknown

The most powerful weapon on Earth is the human soul on fire. Ferdinand Foch

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost." - Arthur Ashe Tennis Player

"You can find on the outside only what you possess on the inside." - Adolfo Montiel Ballesteros

"There is nothing more genuine than breaking away from the chorus to learn the sound of your own voice." - Po Bronson

Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action. Action is the ingredient that ensures results. Only action can cause reaction. Further, only positive action can cause positive reaction. - Jim Rohn

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'. - John Greenleaf Whittier "Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. - Dale Carnegie

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

"Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true." Napoleon Hill

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should bebecause sooner or later, if you're posing, you will forget the pose and then where are you? - Fanny Brice

"Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." Peter Drucker

"True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders." Robert Townsend, Executive, Business



It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. - Mother Teresa

"The moment you let avoiding failure become your motivator, youre down the path of inactivity." Roberto Goizueta, Coca-Cola CEO

"Youve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing." Arthur Ashe, Tennis Player

"I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates." - Norman Schwarzkopf, US Army General

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. - Tao Te Ching

Dont waste your effort on a thing that results in a petty triumph unless you are satisfied with a life of petty issues." - John D. Rockerfeller, Industrialist

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved. - Bill Gates

"If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help." John F. Kennedy, 35th US President

"No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless." Bette Davis, Actress

"Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." Peter Drucker, Educator

"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country." Margaret Thatcher, British Ex Prime Minister

Use the past as a guide for the future, not as an excuse for not dealing with it. Patricia Fripp

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power." Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President

"A company is an organic, living breathing thing, not just an income sheet and balance sheet. You have to lead it with that in mind." Carly Fiorina, CEO Hewlett-Packard



"Dont wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get youve got to make yourself." Alice Walker, Author

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game." Donald Trump

Wealth is not a goal. Wealth is a byproduct. Robert G. Allen "Money is usually attracted, not pursued." Jim Rohn

Men is a money-making animal with propensity too often interferes with his benevolence. Herman Melville

There is nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all hours of his waking day to the making of money only for moneys sake. John D. Rockefeller "Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men." - Charles Caleb Colton "Most people are to busy earning a living to make any money." Unknown

Pattern your Life after success not indifference. Robert G. Allen

"Knowledge-based innovation has the longest lead time of all innovations." Peter Drucker, Author, Management Advisor

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them. - Robert Kiyosaki

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education. - BC Forbes

I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being. - Oprah Winfrey



We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill. It demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress. - Li Ka Shing "Dont fight forces use them." Buckminster Fuller, Inventor, Philosopher

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. - Bill Gates

"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good Morning' at total strangers." - Maya Angelou

"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none." - Benjamin Franklin, Statesman

"The Way is not difficult; only there must be no wanting or not wanting." - Chao-Chou. "How shall I grasp it? Do not grasp it. That which remains when there is no more grasping is the Self." - Panchadasi. "Zen has nothing to grab on to. When people who study Zen don't see it,that is because they approach it too eagerly." - Ying-An.

"To have courage for whatever comes in life everything lies in that." Mother Teresa

"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." - Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)

"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity." - Viktor Frankl



Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads. - Erica Jong

"The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone." - William J. Boetcker

"It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start - starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult." - Prue Leith

"Take the negativity, conquer it with indifference, and use it to achieve your goal, wealth, health and happiness" Rasheed Ali

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." Bill Gates, Microsoft Inc. Company Founder and Chairman

"If you arent fired by enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." Vince Lombardi, Football Coach

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." - G. K. Chesterton, Writer

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive." - Harold Whitman

Be careful what you do, because what you do is what you end up doing.- Hans Glint You can do anything you want to do, but you can not do all the things you want to do. - Hans Glint

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting. - Bill Gates "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill, British statesman

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus when the limo breaks down." Oprah Winfrey, talk-show host, producer



The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. - George Jessel

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. - Dorothy Sarnoff

"A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves." Amelia Earhart, Aviator

"Every idea you present must be something you could get across easily at a cocktail party with strangers." Jack Welch, ex CEO General Electric

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." John Quincy Adams, 6th US president

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll; I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. James Allen

Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way. - Wayne Dyer

The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other. - Bill Gates

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you dont know where youre aiming, you dont have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared. - Mary Kay Ash

Each of us needs all of us, and all of us need each of us Jim Rohn



Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru. - Stephen Covey

No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart. It comes from being alive. - Richard Carlson I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. - Martha Stewart

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals. - Stephen Covey This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion. - Clive Davis A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. - Wayne Dyer It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth. - Oprah Winfrey

You are doomed to make choices. This is lifes greatest paradox. - Wayne Dyer

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience. - Michael Eisner, CEO Disney Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Learning Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson



If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. - Henry Ford

There never was a good war or a bad peace. - Benjamin Franklin Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. - Benjamin Franklin

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved. - Bill Gates

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. - Philip Green

"Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger and we will make not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large." - Mahatma Gandhi In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential. It's no different in the financial realm. - Suze Orman

I love the market, it is my work, my play and my life. - Rene Rivkin

I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others. - Alan Greenspan

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them. - Stephen Covey

It is decidedly not true that nice guys finish last. - Leo Durocher

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. - Samuel Johnson There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success. - Philip Knight



Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew. - Mikhail Khodorkovsky

People first, then money, then things. - Suze Orman

I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well. - Rene Rivkin How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to? - Anthony Robbins

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life. - Charles Schwab Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald Trump

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back. - Ted Turner

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure. - Richard Carlson

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life. - Suze Orman

I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized. - Stephen Covey We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. - Stephen Covey



What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives. - Oprah Winfrey

You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar

"You will become as great as your dominant aspiration...if you cherish a vision in your heart, you will realize it. - James Allen

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in not giving up. Tommy Lasorda

"The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose." John McEnroe, tennis champion

"You cant help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself." H. Norman Schwarzkopf, US Army General

"Youll never get the best from employees by trying to build a fire under them youve got to build a fire within them." - Bob Nelson

"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." Warren Buffet, Financier

The way this works is, you do the thing that scares you most and you get the confidence afterwards!" George Clooney, 3 Kings.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. - Herbert Spencer

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. - Chinese Proverb

"If you dont sell, its not the product thats wrong its you." Esteee Lauder

"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done." - Ralph Lauren, Designer and Businessman

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Waldo Emerson

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be." William Shakespeare



"It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road."- Kareem Abdul-Jabar (b. 1947), American collegiate and NBA basketball player

"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions" - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Give a lot of thought to the future because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life. - Charles Kettering

"Champions arent made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." Muhammad Ali, box champion

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." - Bertrand Russell

"Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream." W. C. Fields, Actor and Comedian

"You must avoid the investigation trap you cant postpone tough decisions by studying them to death." Percy Barnevik, executive

"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get." Ray Kroc, McDonalds founder

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." Vincent Van Gogh, artist

"Never assume the obvious is true." Albert Einstein

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not . . . the world is full of educated derelicts." Calvin Coolidge, 30th US President

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." Marie Curie, physicist

"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent." Isaac Newton, mathematician, physicist



"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - George S. Patton

I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being. - Oprah Winfrey

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale. - Zig Ziglar

"Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to peoples mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders . . . Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest." Dale Carnegie

"Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose, so we dont try for the next hill. Maya Angelou

"As long as youre going to think anyway, think big." Donald Trump, Real Estate giant

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both. - St Catherine of Siena

I take advice from five wise men: Mr Who, Mr Where, Mr What, Mr Why and Mr When Unknown

"Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true." - Lester R. Bittel

Concentration, in its truest, unadulterated form, means the ability to focus the mind on one single solitary thing. - Komar "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." - William James, psychologist

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary." Thomas Edison

Reading without reflection is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke



"The road of success is like running up an escalator going down, you need to keep running, if you walk, you stand still, if you stop you are going down!" Anneloes Zuiderveen

Authority does not make you a leader It gives you the opportunity to be one. - Anonymous

"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise." - Robert Fritz

"Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action." Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

"Most of the important things in the world have been accompanied by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." Dale Carnegie, author

Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own - Adam Lindsay Gordon

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward. - Igor Sikorsky

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? Its quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isnt at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember thats where you will find success." Thomas J. Watson

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life. - Oprah Winfrey

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. - Zig Ziglar

"The biggest mistake people make in life is not making a living at doing what they most enjoy." - Malcolm S. Forbes



There are a thousand excuses for every failure but never a good reason. Mark Twain

"We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." - Rabindranath Tagore

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit." Jim Rohn

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do." Bob Dylan

"The noblest search is the search for excellence." - Lyndon B. Johnson

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself." Famous Ballet Dancer

Writing is the gold standard of communication. Learn to do it well and see more gold." -- Chris Widener

"Indecision is the thief of opportunity." -- Jim Rohn

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this something, at whatever cost, must be attained." Marie Curie

"The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous, human attribute." Dero Ames Saunders

"Would that I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours." Bernard Berenson

"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." - Pat Riley

"Do what you love to do and commit yourself to doing it in an excellent fashion." - Brian Tracy

"You dont get to choose how youre going to die. Or when. You can only decide how youre going to live. And that is Now." Joan Baez Singer



"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed." - Michael Pritchard

The first law of success is concentration - to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right or to the left. - William Mathews

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." -Og Mandino

If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances. - Julia Soul

"Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it." Mark Twain, author

"One person with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson, US President

"All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare." Dale Carnegie

Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem . . . Problems are like landmarks of progress. - Scott Alexander

The world always steps aside for people who know where theyre going. - Miriam Viola Larsen

"They can conquer who believe they can." Virgil, Roman Poet

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. - Mahatma Gandhi

The secret of mans being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living. The Grand Inquisitor in Dostoyevskys The Brothers Karamazov

"If everybody else is doing it one way, theres a good change you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction." Sam Walton, Wal-Mart Founder



"Audiences don't care what you've done. They care about what you've learned. - Mark Sanborn, Past President, National Speakers Association

"All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small." - Lao-Tzu

"It is the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." - Thomas Paine

"You will become as great as your dominant aspiration...if you cherish a vision in your heart, you will realize it. - James Allen, As You Think.

"Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate accomplishments." - Napoleon Hill

Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on mens souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth and quiet, and comfort the hearer. Pascal

People have to be responsible for their own thoughts, so they have to learn to control them. It may not be easy, but it can be done. First of all, if we dont want to think certain things we dont say them. We dont have to eat everything we see, and we dont have to say everything we think. So we begin by watching our words and speaking only with purpose - Rolling Thunder

I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time. - Oprah Winfrey

"You will succeed best when you put the restless, anxious side of affairs out of mind, and allow the restful side to live in your thoughts." - Margaret Stowe

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." - Bill Cosby Comedian, Actor and Author

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir mens blood . . . Make big plans, aim high in hope and work." Daniel Burnham, Architect



"It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process. All you have to do with that is to retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude." - Wallace D. Wattles Millions long for immortality and they do not know what to do with themselves on a lonely Sunday afternoon." Murphy

"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts." - Booker T. Washington

Do unto others as they would have you do unto them. Dr. Tony Alessandra

"How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever." - David Norris

"If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. - Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman

"When you engage in systematic, purposeful action, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself." - Brian Tracy

"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability." Henry Ford

Dont treat others the way you want to be treated. Treat others the way THEY want to be treated. Vic Johnson

You control your life by controlling your time. Conrad Hilton

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln

"I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days." Lance Armstrong

"Few cases of eye strain have been developed by looking on the bright side of things." Unknown

"Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment." Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman, Author



"Property may be destroyed and m0ney may l0se its purchasing power; but character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions." - Roger Babso

"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time." - Charles Dickens

"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were to the very last minute a chance to lose it." Dwight Eisenhower, 34th US President

"When its time to make a decision about a person or problem, trust your intuition (and) act." Bud Hadfield, executive

"Everyone whos ever taken a shower has an idea. Its the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it, who makes a difference." Nolan Buhnell

A man that cannot be bothered to do little things, cannot be trusted to do big things." Lawrence Bell, aviation executive

"The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today." - Albert Schweitzer

"Big problems arise from small problems. The wise takes care of all his small problems. Thus he has no problems." - Tao

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. - Abraham Lincoln

"Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point." - Harold B. Melchart

Imagination grows by exercise W. Somerset Maugham

If opportunity doesnt knock, build a door. Milton Berle

Common Sense is not very common. Albert Einstein

"Good will is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." Marshall Field



"Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance." - William Wirt

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." Samuel Johnson

Success is a journey, not only a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. Arthur Ashe

"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always." - Albert Schweitzer

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams

"The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. This is the only secret to style. - Matthew Arnold

"If you think you can or if you think you cant either way, you are right!" Henry Ford

All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare. Dale Carnegie

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stevenson

We as human beings have the power of attitude and that attitude determines choice, and choice determines results Jim Rohn

"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present." Zig Ziglar




"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." - Annie Dillard

"Reading is a means of thinking with another persons mind; it forces you to stretch your own." Charles Scribner Jr., Publisher

You must learn how to handle difficulty; it always comes after opportunity. Jim Rohn

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect it's successful outcome, -William James

No great performance came from holding back Don Greene

"To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you somebody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." E. E. Cummings, American Poet & Author

"When you are clear on what you want in your life, it will show up and only to the extent you are clear." - Janet Bray Attwood

"Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things." - Eric Butterworth Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and more important to have those people accept the direction. Vince Lombardi

Transform challenge into choices, obstacles into opportunity, and tragedy into triumph Randy Gage.

Even if youre on the right track, youll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - Sir John Lubbock

Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it." - Unknown



Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you arent defeated by it. Youre learning from it. Bill Gates

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave." - Mary Tyler Moore

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. Muhammad Ali

You haven't failed until you quit trying. - Unknown

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is hacking at the roots." - Henry David Thoreau

If we have our own why of life, we can clear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche

There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self-destruct. It never fails. Richard Rybolt

To earn more, you must learn more. Brian Tracy

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."- Benjamin Franklin (and often attributed to Einstein, as well)

If you are not committed to getting better at what you are doing, you are bound to get worse. - Pat Riley, The Winner Within

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom." Mr. Shoaf, mentor of Jim Rohn

"Develop your willpower so that you can make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not." - Brian Tracy



Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Dr. David M. Burns

Integrity makes my job easier. Its deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort. Bobby Bowden

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. Napoleon Hill

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Ben Franklin

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it. Patrick Henry

You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past. Jim Rohn

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind." Albert Szent-Gyorgi

Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits. Thomas Edison

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen that has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. Mark Victor Hansen

"You can't dig a new well by digging the same hole deeper." - Edward De Bono

"Change your mind ... and EVERYTHING changes." Unknown

Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing. Albert Schweitzer

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching. Dennis Green

It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit. Robert Yates



Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them every day begins with the task a new. St Francis de Sales

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." Johann von Goethe

We want to reach for the stars and not merely across the table. Denise Magyar

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing." Elbert Hubbard "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." - Richard Bach

It is not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves. Edmund Hillary

Together, one person, one course at a time we can transform the world. - T. Harv Eker

Find the good. Its all around you. Find it, showcase it and youll start believing in it. Jesse Owens

We must never allow our mediocre successes to cloud our future expectations. M. Avis

We are sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. - Warren Buffett

"Positive feedback is the breakfast of champions." - Ken Blanchard

Success is the proper utilization of failure. - Unknown

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie

"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values." - Joshua L. Liebman

You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour. - Unknown



Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they cant lose. Bill Gates

Remember, when you were made a leader, you werent given a crown, you were given a responsibility to bring out the best in others. For that, your people need to trust you. - Jack Welch, former CEO, General Electric

Employ your time in improving yourself by other mens writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. - Socrates

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. Thomas A. Edison

Pessimist: A person who says that O is the last letter in ZERO, Instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY. - Unknown

"You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?" -- W. Clement Stone

"Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system." Norman Cousin

Concentration, in its truest, unadulterated form, means the ability to focus the mind on one single solitary thing. - Komar Dont give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love, inspiration and hard work. I dont think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobodys going to know whether you did it or not. - Oprah Winfrey

"There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing." - Unknown

When you go through the bottom of one thing, you wind on the top of another. - Unknown

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler



The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands in time of challenge and controversy - Martin Luther King Jr.

Dreams are extremely important. You cant do it unless you imagine it." - George Lucas

Imagination is more important than knowledge Albert Einstein

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn." George Santayana, Philosopher and Poet

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. William James

Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand." - Unknown

Nothing is a more powerful agent for attracting and keeping talented people than a clear vision, especially if the organization is living that vision and achieving its goals. Gary Hoover

Nothing works until you do. - Mike Brescia

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor. Robert Collier

"Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared." David Ben-Gurion

Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory. Douglas MacArthur

my father treated me with very stern discipline: he trusted me. Ive got to see the trust through. He trusted me. I trust other people. And they do the job. - Robert Galvin, Jr., former CEO, Motorola

I have never seen pessimists make anything work, or contribute anything of lasting value. Harry Truman



"To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, happy and successful thoughts 24 hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all." Sidney Madwed

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. Honore de Balzac

"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results." Napoleon Hill

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that." - Goethe, in Philosophy

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you. William Knudsen Jr.

Attitude determines choice, and choice determines results. Jim Rohn

"Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." George Washington Carver, Botanist

Life has no special time of its own. Its hour is now always. Albert Schweitzer

"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self." - Whitney Young, Civil rights leader (1921-1971)

So, I learn from my mistakes. Its a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, theres no gain. Johnny Cash

"There is no inevitability in history except as men make it." Felix Frankfurter, US Supreme Court Justice

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin

"The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none." Thomas Carlyle, Essayist, Historian



If an individual wants to be a leader and isnt controversial, that means he never stood for anything. - Richard M. Nixon

"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision." - Muhammad Ali, American Boxer

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." - James Crook

"You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety." - Abraham Lincoln, 16th US PresidentMaslow

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction." Kenichi Ohmae

"Good Leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning." - Warren Bennis

"The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us." Hubert Humphrey, former US Vice President,

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. Thomas Mann

"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home." John Stuart Mill

"When will transformation begin? It starts at the moment you decide to change. That's why it's so vital for you to stop for a moment and come face to face with one aspect of your life that needs drastic action immediately." -- Neil Eskelin

"We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace." Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are risks and cost to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-term risks and cost of a comfortable program of inaction. John F. Kennedy



"Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money." - Earl Warren

I dont measure my success every day. I measure how much we have left to do. In that sense, business success is just a form of persistence. Daniel Snyder

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristole

Give your workers more sophisticated jobs along with better tools and youll discover your employees will become more responsible and bring more intelligence to their work. Bill Gates

"We are here to add what we can do, not to get what we can from life." William Osler, Physician

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses and some dont turn up at all Sam Ewing

Everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing himself." Leo Tolstoy

If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way. Jane Goodall

We must have long term goals, to keep us from being frustrated by short-term failures." Charles C. Noble

"A great flame follows a little spark." Dante Alighieri, Poet

"Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me... the gift is there and the wonder of an overshadowing presence." - Fra Giovanni

"Someone once asked me what is the hardest part about creating what you want? My reply was 'Learning to stop figuring out how you will get what you want. Jim Rohn

"If you try to figure out how you will get what you want you will limit yourself to what your ego or conditioned mind can do. The key to creating what you want is to turn your desire or your goal over to your subconscious which is connected to the Universal Mind or Universal Subconscious and let it bring the goal to you and you to your goal." - Dr. Robert Anthony

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